
A couple is facing murder charges for dumping a 3-year-old in a garbage bag to punish the infant for putting their console in a bin.
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Tomohiro Kato, the maniac who in 2008 used a knife and a truck to conduct a bloody slaughter in Akihabara, slaying 7 and wounding a further 10, has finally been sentenced to death.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Feb 4, 2011 04:10 JST
- Tags: Adultery, Bangladesh, Bizarre, Courts, Crime, Incest, Islam, Murder, Rape

A 14-year-old girl has reportedly been whipped to death as punishment for being raped, with the sentence being ordered by an Islamic court.
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A man has been convicted of gang-raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a public toilet, traumatising her so severely that she later committed suicide, but only received a 4 year prison sentence, even less that the 5-year sentence sought by the prosecution and the minimum sentence the law allows.
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A man has been charged with the attempted murder of two policemen and a neighbour after attacking them with a katana, successfully hacking off one officer’s thumb.
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Murder charges against a woman who stabbed an old lady to death for no reason have been dropped and the woman released, despite accusations that the murder was premeditated.
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Japan’s Minister of Justice has developed a novel argument against the death penalty – criminals die anyway, so why kill them?
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A 17-year-old who attempted to rape and murder his classmate, smashing her face to a pulp with a 30kg concrete post after she resisted him, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison.
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One of the execution chambers where Japanese death row inmates are hanged has been revealed to the public for the first time.
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An elderly Japanese veteran’s recollection of how he ordered his men to use a Chinese prisoner as a target for bayonet drill, reasoning that the soldiers needed to develop some “backbone,” is proving highly controversial online.
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A man carrying a katana has engaged in a sword-fight with a squad of riot police at the Japanese prime ministerial residence, successfully cutting off the thumb of one policeman.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Aug 11, 2010 03:28 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chiba, Crime, Food, Guro, Mental Illness, Murder, Police, Suicide, Theft

A prisoner has committed suicide by thrusting chopsticks into his own eyes.
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